Aikaterini Chatzopoulou presented “Renewal and inertia in the history of Greek negation” at Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2012) on March 8th and ”Jespersen’s Cycle Redefined” at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 24.
The tentative program of CLS 48, which will take place on April 19-21, is now available.
The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will take place at the University of Chicago on March 9-11 in Ida Noyes Hall. In addition to the general session, there will be a special themed session focus on information structure as well as a round table discussion with the invited speakers on the role of youths in language revitalization efforts. Due to generous financial support from various funding sources, there is no registration for this conference. Everyone is invited!
The workshop schedule can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/wscla17/.
Several Chicago linguists will be presenting at WCCFL 30 at UC Santa Cruz!
Great job y’all!
Several Chicago linguists will be heading to Ohio State in March to present at the Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics:
Alan Yu is one of the invited speakers. His talk is titled “Determinants of Cantonese syllable wellformedness.”
Julia Thomas and Jackson Lee will be presenting at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium on March 23-25.
Rebekah Baglini and Michael Erlewine (BA, MA, 2007) will present at the 35th GLOW Colloquium to be held on March 28-30, 2012, at the University of Potsdam.
On Feb 11-12, several U of C linguists will be presenting at BLS 38:
In addition to these student presenters, our very own Victor Friedman is one of the invited speakers. His talk is titled “Languages are Wealth: The Sprachbund as Linguistic Capital”.